Jonathan Rudderham

Bringing Down the House is the sixth episode of the first season of Superboy from 1988 featuring John Haymes Newton as Clark Kent / Superboy, Stacy Haiduk as Lana Lang, and Jim Calvert as T.J.White.  Perhaps not the most action-packed and special-effects filled episode we’ve seen, but one that demonstrates […]

1.06 Bringing Down the House

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The fifth episode of the first season of Superboy from 1988 featuring John Haymes Newton as Clark Kent / Superboy, Stacy Haiduk as Lana Lang, and Jim Calvert as T.J.White, featuring Doug Barr.   An episode that feels almost like a pilot episode with a more assured approach to some special […]

1.05 Countdown to Nowhere

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The Russian Exchange Student is the fourth episode of the first season of Superboy from 1988 featuring John Haymes Newton as Clark Kent / Superboy, Stacy Haiduk as Lana Lang, and Jim Calvert as T.J.White.  A fairly simple morality tale about prejudice, incorporating some new and ambitious special effects. At college, a […]

1.04 The Russian Exchange Student

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A Kind of Princess is the second episode of the first season of Superboy from 1988 featuring John Haymes Newton as Clark Kent / Superboy, Stacy Haiduk as Lana Lang, and Jim Calvert as T.J.White.  Guest-starring Julie McCullough as Sara Danner, the “princess” of the title caught up in a […]

1.02 A Kind of Princess

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Look!  Up in the sky!  It’s a bird!  It’s a plane!  It’s Superboy!  Yes. long forgotten amongst the latter day offerings from The Lois Lane Show with Dean Cain and the No Capes, No Thrills Show starring Tom Welling, we present The Adventures of Superboy. A strange programme from the planet […]

1.01 The Jewel of Techacal

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I listened to the first part of Spare Parts from Big Finish last night and really enjoyed it.  Spare Parts is the 34th story in their Doctor Who: Main Range series and features Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, accompanied by Sarah Sutton as Nyssa.  This is a full-cast adventure […]

34. Spare Parts, episode 1

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Actually, I couldn’t think of a better title to say “The Three Doctors, but not those three…”.  As I’ve recently been turning some of my CD collection into iPod tracks and having stumbled across a couple of audio Doctor Who‘s that I bought some years ago but didn’t listen to, […]

The Three Doctors – reloaded!

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It’s not often that I fork out on non-canon Doctor Who adventures, so this is a bit of a rarity for me. Big Finish‘s audio adventure The Mahogany Murderers sees the return of two characters from Doctor Who who, although only appearing in one adventure and only working together in […]

cc3.11 The Mahogany Murderers

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During its twentieth century, Earth proved to be a popular planet for the inhabitants of the universe.  If it wasn’t being invaded by Daleks and Klingons, it was being attacked by Shadows and Vorlons.  If it wasn’t housing a full slave ship worth of Tenctonese, it was being infiltrated by […]

A Multitude of Idols

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